11 – 14 December 2025 | 

Antwerp Expo

Galerie 8+4

Galerie 8+4 will present rare, exceptional and new works by four artists: Claude Parent, Lionel Sabatté, Claire Trotignon and Javier Perez. Recognised as one of the most innovative architectural theorists of the 1970s-2000s, Claude Parent was both an artist, a theorist and an architect. Galerie 8+4 will present several exceptional sets of drawings and inks from the years 2000-2010, all of which have remained in the private collection of the estate. Lionel Sabatté is taking on the field of tapestry with the aim of deconstructing its codes. Working with a variety of materials ranging from cotton to paper, he has imagined a tapestry that has become like a skin by choosing to work on the reverse side of the textile. Claire Trotignon composes collages of fragments of 19th-century engravings and early colour magazines which form landscapes populated by scattered bits of architecture. In her work, the traditional perspectival point of view gives way to new space-time, allowing the past to collide with projections into the future. For Javier Perez, drawing, sculpture, even performance and video, serve to explore the human body and mind in a language full of symbolism. In the series he has composed specifically for the gallery, he takes his inspiration from undergrowth photographed at dusk, when the shapes dissolve in the darkness.

Claire Trotignon, 2024 / Courtsey Galerie 8+4